This movie certainly understands cats and dogs, made up as it is of frenetic activity interspersed with longer periods when not much happens. Then the last 25 minutes really crank up the excitement, like that half hour starting at 6pm when cats go nuts and start running round the living room chasing their tails. Still,… Stardog & Turbocat Read More
Invasion Planet Earth 2 stars
It never rains but it pours as we like to say in weather-obsessed Britain, and that’s certainly true of Invasion Planet Earth. Not literally. This isn’t Geostorm. But our planet, already on the brink of a world war, is faced with an alien invasion. Simon Cox’s feature (he directed, produced and co-wrote the screenplay) has been… Invasion Planet Earth Read More
Knives Out 4 stars
In a film stuffed with did he / didn’t she, there are at least two areas of certainty: nurse Marta will vomit whenever she hears or speaks a lie, and every member of the Thrombey family under the age of 85 is awful. Even the *nice* ones turn out to be grasping and greedy, ignoring… Knives Out Read More
The Knight Before Christmas 3 stars
14th century English knight Sir Cole Lyons can chop a Christmas tree down in one axe stroke, which rather concerned me when I started considering what his job might be back in snowy medieval Norwich – especially when he later captures a purse thief and wastes no time telling the pickpocket exactly what his punishment… The Knight Before Christmas Read More
Klaus 4 stars
Director Sergio Pablos’s yuletide fable is surprisingly unsentimental, considering this time of year tends to brings out as much treacle in movies as in the traditional festive gingerbread. A Santa Claus origins story, it’s surely destined to become a Christmas classic – as lonely woodsman Klaus’s unshakeable belief that “a true selfless act always sparks… Klaus Read More
A Reindeer’s Journey – kids’ review! 4.5 stars
I wanted to give this 9.9 but mum said it had to be out of five stars. The start is brilliant, the rocks in the snow are made to look like a reindeer’s head. I’ve actually seen reindeer in Finland. Last year I went to Lapland to meet the real Father Christmas and our hotel… A Reindeer’s Journey – kids’ review! Read More
The Aeronauts 4 stars
A period drama about the weather really is peak British filmmaking. Corsets and barometers – what could be better? And they get to change the world. Set in 1862, this is an exhilarating journey up, up and away; with breathtaking action and a thoughtful central relationship between a doer and a thinker, as balloon pilot… The Aeronauts Read More
The Beach Bum 3.5 stars
A genius at geniality, Moondog, a middle-aged slacker poet with a very rich, very accommodating wife, has the life many people dream of. Most of the time he’s chilling on his boat, surrounded by equally good-natured half-naked women, who lie around smiling cheerily while he bangs away on his scarlet typewriter. (“A Van Gogh with… The Beach Bum Read More
Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) 5 stars
The Peanut Butter Falcon infuses its message of autonomy and risk-taking with a sense of magic – as Zak, a young man with Down Syndrome who escapes his dreary, constricting care home for freedom and adventure, drifts on a raft through the stultifyingly hot river-ways of the American South with new friend Tyler and old friend… Peanut Butter Falcon (London Film Festival 2019) Read More
Downton Abbey – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 3 stars
Click here for my full Downton Abbey review (Warning: spoilers, though it’s not really the kind of film where it matters.)
The Witches (kids’ review!) 5 stars
I don’t believe in witches and I don’t believe in ghosts. The Tooth Fairy is real though. People say she uses the children’s teeth to build a castle of teeth but I don’t think that. The witches in this film have horrible toes so they have to wear horrible shoes and they are bald with… The Witches (kids’ review!) Read More
Princess Emmy (kids’ review!) 2.5 stars
In Princess Emmy she has a gift because she can talk to her horses. Her favourite horse is called Ceasar. I talk to my cat but she doesn’t understand that many words. In the film Princess Emmy lives in a castle with her family. Her cousin Gizana is mean to her. She comes to stay because they… Princess Emmy (kids’ review!) Read More
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